Online Gambling News
Below is a list of the latest casino news.
John Pappas, executive director of the more than one million member Poker Players Alliance (PPA), has issued a statement in regards to legal action taken by the Commonwealth to seize the domain names of Internet gambling websites....
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The news earlier this week that Kentucky state officials are seeking the confiscation of some 141 online gambling domains has been carried widely in mainstream as well as industry media, but has not fazed some forward-thinking operators who had already made contingency plans for such an official action.
The Guardian newspaper in London spoke to Nick Wood, managing director of London-...
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Swedish online game developer Jadestone has developed a suite of new dice games for online gaming operators which will be offered on the fully managed game network DiceArena due for launch at popular European online gaming sites in autumn 2008.
Jadestone designers have both casual and hardcore players looking for something new and different in mind during the development process. The DiceArena network, operated by Jadestone Networks...
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Event 1 of the World Series of Poker Europe has come and gone, leaving Danish pro Jesper Hougaard the victor and holder of a gold bracelet and a useful GBP144 218 in cash.
Hougaard was the low man in chip stacks when the final table started out, but with skilled and determined play he truimphed against the likes of US ace Adam Junglen, recent APPT Macau Main Event champio...
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Sportingbet has upgraded its customer service capability with the inception of Numara Software's FootPrints 8 service desk management solution.
Sportingbet spans 30 different markets across Europe, Australia, Canada and South America and offers a range of sportsbook, ca...
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International poker pro Phil Ivey showed them all how it's done in London this week when he won a bank-boosting half a million dollar main prize in the Full Tilt Poker.com Million Dollar Cash Game.
It was the second time that the accompli...
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Citadel Commerce Corp., commenced processing Instant Internet Banking transactions for 888 Holdings plc this week. The Instant Internet Banking service is a new payment solution that provides the capability for international consumers to securely pay for purchased items using their Internet bank account.
This is accomplished by the consumer logging into their own Internet Banking system and securely initiating a payment directly to a...
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Swedish online game developer Jadestone announced this week that its skill games network GamArena has added three new distribution partners in Ekstrabladet, Nordic Gaming Group and ToucanWIN.
Ekstrabladet is Denmark's leading tabloid newspaper with some 800 thousand readers. In its game section it has now launched GamArena skill games under the label Mini Vegas. As part of the GamArena Premium service, site operator Jadestone has cus...
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Swedish online gambling software developers NYX Interactive and state gambling monopoly Svenska Spel have launched the next generation of bingo and lottery platforms, a joint statement announced this week. The project is based on the NYX gaming platform and Svenska Spel's requirements for competitive functionality improving on its offering w...
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Reports from the Kentucky Post and Associated Press are appearing widely concerning a new anti-online gambling strategy currently being deployed by Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and his officials. Whilst Beshear is vehemently anti-Internet gambling, his state is among the most famous for horse racing, currently protected from Internet ga...
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The giant European Internet gambling group Bwin suffered a further legal disappointment this week in its litigation aimed at overturning German states bans on online gambling , this time losing its action against Lower Saxony.
The administrative court in Hanover, Lower Sa...
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First Technology LLC, the US company led by Dr Scott Lewis which claims patent rights to online gambling technology that has created problems for a number of operators with its claims, most prominently Bodog, is itself under the microscope by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it appears.
There were reports this week o...
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The talks in Washington this week between a European Union delegation and US politicians and USTR officials on what EU gambling businesses claim is discriminatory and unfair official action against non-US companies have reportedly ended with little forward movement, according to sources who spoke to the Reuters news agency.
Apparently the US Trade Representative...
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A London stock trading business is developing a new market in which investors can put up money as stakes for experienced poker players to use in order to generate shared winnings. Although staking friends or business associates is not unheard of in the professional game, most successful players reportedly prefer to pay their own way, but London businessmen still believe the...
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Pre-launch information from Party Poker is that its brand new table will debut next Monday, September 23rd, supported by a $50 000 customer freeroll on Saturday and a media freeroll in October. The company says the launch will be the result of a lengthy development process.
In addition to sharp new graphics, the tables have increased functionality, with each pl...
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